This is a reprint of the Northern Iowan’s publication following the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
NORTHERN IOWAN
‘Acts of cowardice’... VOL. 98 NO. 4
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA - CEDAR FALLS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2001
has targeted the United States Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. repeatedly. The attack was likely to Bin Laden is blamed for Knight Ridder Newspaper have a similarly jarring effect masterminding the bombings on a stunned nation, as Ameriof U.S. embassies in Kenya WASHINGTON- In a stagcans hunker down, suddenly and Tanzania in 1998, and is gering attack on the United unsure of the safety of their suspected in the bombing of States, terrorists struck Tuesskies. Talk turned quickly to the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen last day at the symbols of Amerretaliation and even war. October. He is believed to be ican financial and military “If you can do this to the based in Afghanistan. might, using hijacked jetliners U.S.A. and get at two symThe loss of life from Tuesas suicide missiles to level bols of the strength of Amerday’s attacks is likely to be the twin towers of the World ica,” said Sen. Chuck Hagel, horrendeous. As many as Trade Center in New York R-Neb.,that tells you essen50,000 people could have City and blast into the Pentatially we are at war.” been in the two 110-story gon beside Washington, D.C. “Standing in a park near skyscrapers, and thousands in President Bush vowed “to the Pentagon. Several hundred the evacuated Capital, Sen. hunt down and punish those John Warner, R-Va., the senior people aboard the four airlinresponsible for these cowardRepublican on the Senate ers perished as well. ly acts.” Armed Services Committee, The grim toll was almost Hours later, explosions said, “This is our second certain to surpass the 2,403 rocked Kabul, the capital Pearl Harbor, right here in the who were killed in the surof Afghanistan and the host nation’s capital. prise Japanese attack on country for the prime suspect “This story has been writthe U.S. naval base at Pearl behind the Kabul explosions. ten in fiction and now it’s beHarbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, Intelligence officials said fore us as reality. Our lifestyle 1941, and the 167 who died initial information pointed will never be the same again.” in a domestic terrorist bomb at Osama bin Laden as the attack on a federal building in chief suspect in the attacks on See HUNDREDS, page 3 Washington and New York Bin Laden is a Saudi exile who heads the Al-Qaida, a Tuesday, September 11, 2001 global terrorist network that BY STEVEN THOMMA
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..shake UNI Pictured is a flag that was planted to memorialize victims of the 9/11 attack.
BY SARA C. KONRAD NI News Editor
As of the news of the Tuesday morning terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon circulated, a wave of shock, disbelief and mourning swept the world. UNI was like so many other communities, saddened and angered by the event. Students reported to classes as they do everyday, but it was unlike anything anyone had experienced or could remember. Perhaps one of UNI’s closest link was Phil Mauceri, associate professor of political science who teaches a terrorism class on campus. Mauceri, a native of the New York area, had returned home on a visit. “I was in midtown when it happened,” Mauceri said via a telephone interview Tuesday
afternoon. “I was traveling from New Jersey to Manhattan when I saw a huge plume of smoke.
scores of other people, he found himself walking north. “It was like war,” Mauceri said.
“People in New York often pull their cars over on the streets and blare their car radios,” he described. “That’s how I found out what had happened.” Mauceri described that he got on a subway in an attempt to get away from the area, but couldn’t go far because public transportation was shut down almost immediately. Like
“The air was filled with ash and smoke. People looked like refugees, and the scene was like one out of Bosnia. No one was being allowed south of 42nd street. The police had automatic weapons. It was not like anything I’ve ever seen.” Mauceri reported that amazingly the crowds were calm as they evacuated from the area. See UNI, page 7
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Across the nation people grieved the loss of lives as a result of the attacks.
Timeline of Events (All times Central Standard)
7:45 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 hits the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City 8:03 a.m. United Airlines Flight 178 slams into the south tower of the World Trade Center. 8:40 a.m. American Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. 8:48 a.m. The Capital and West Wing of the White House are evacuated. 8:50 a.m. The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses. 9:00 a.m. United Flight 93 crashes about 80 miles southesast of Pittsburgh. 9:29 a.m. The north tower of the World Trade Center collapses. 10:00 a.m. New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani calls for the evacuation of lower Manhattan. 1:51 p.m. Navy deploys missile destroyers and other equipment to New York and Washington. 4:25 p.m. Another building in the World Trade Center complex collapses. 7:30 p.m. Bush addressses the nation, vows retaliation for “evil acts.”